EPISODE 01 - Dominican Writers
Episode 01 - Angela Abreu from Dominican Writers
Rocio and Mercedes chat with Angela Abreu, the founder, and Executive Director for Dominican Writers. This is an organization solely dedicated to highlighting content that not only promotes the works of Dominican Writers but also provides them with the tools and resources necessary for their development. In this episode, we discuss Angela’s journey toward creating the platform, touch on the importance of telling our stories, and her journey identifying as an Afro-Dominican.
About Angela
Angela "Angy" Abreu is a Dominican-American writer and community organizer. In 2014, Angy co-founded Wordat4F, "Where Community Activism meets the Arts: a grassroots traveling open mic series that aimed to cultivate a love of spoken word, poetry and literature in the Uptown (Washington Heights, Inwood & Bronx Communities) of New York City. In 2015, feeling dismissed as a Dominican American writer in many literary spaces, she decided to create the Dominican Writers Association a 501 c3 non-profit organization Angy is the Creative Director of Dominican Writers and along with the Board manages and creates content that serves a large population of writers.
In the Spring of 2019 Angy and the Dominican Writers Association organized the First Annual Dominican Writers Conference in honor of Josefina Baez, held at City College of New York, sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing. The Conference was a one-day event that offered 15 writing workshops and 13 discussion panels. In attendance were approximately 300 writers among them supporters, publishing industry folks, and academics.
Angy is also the author of "I Have No Room For the Broken" A collection of poetry on love, heartbreak and moving on, available via Amazon, currently being translated to Spanish. The book is a biographical of her love life, written in hopes that she inspires women to move on from bad relationships while achieving self-empowerment in doing so. In 2017 the book was written as a monologue which was part of the “One Catches Light Festival” and the Uptown Arts Stroll. Angy was recently published in “Peinate: Hair Battles between Latina Mothers and Daughters.”
More Info:
IG: @angysgotit
IG: @dominicanwriters
Email: info@dominicanwriters.com
This episode was produced by: Quinton Cameron, Mercedes Ilarraza, and Rocio Mendez
Edited by: Quinton Cameron
